Iran articulated on Thursday its desire to become part of the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which connects China's northwestern region of Xinjiang to Gwadar port located in Pakistan's insurgency porn province of Balochistan.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that the much talked about China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would prove to be a game-changer not only for Pakistan's economy but the entire South Asia.

Pakistan must beef up the security of Chinese laborers working for the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as opposing countries may use "extreme means" to sabotage the ambitious project, the state-run Chinese daily Global Times warned on Tuesday.

The four nations comprising the Quadrilateral Coordination Group for peace negotiations in Afghanistan have decided to push through with talks scheduled this week in spite a deadly Taliban attack in the Afghan capital recently.

China's new Silk Road could be boom or "dust" for Pakistan. Locals living in the region bordering China are yet to be convinced about the benefits that they will receive from the initiative as the Silk Road gets under construction in northern Pakistan.

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping is bound for Pakistan next week to tackle the $46-billion Pakistan-China Economic Corridor, the money to fund the project would not come from the newly established Asian Infrastructure Development Bank.